Though numerous social workers try to step in, a co-dependent mother and son bounce from city to city, in search of a place where they can be together at all times.

A Black teenage mother wants to visit her daughter's father, but she struggles to get her family to help watch the baby at home.

After a tumultuous and difficult upbringing, a woman contemplates whether or not she should give up her newborn child for adoption.

After he gets divorced, a father finds renewed purpose through his role as a single parent and the precious time he spends with his children.

A single mother living in the Bay Area is attempting to successfully raise three children, but finds trouble optimizing both their freedom and their safety.

A mother reflects on her failures to improve the troubled upbringing of her first daughter, who she raised as a single parent during the Great Depression.

On Mother's Day, a group of mother-less women go to a pub to enjoy each other's company. One of them is pregnant, and another is planning to adopt. A woman contemplates her pregnancy at a dinner with her friends on Mother's Day. All the women's mothers have passed away.

Isolation overwhelms a new mother as she struggles with emotional distance from her husband and son. In a desperate moment, she makes a rash decision to get a brief respite from the stress.

A single mother struggles to return to normal life after her only son gets married while receiving rude advice from her neighbor who claims she is only trying to help the mother out.

In a small town in Minnesota, a man's ex-wife returns to him, homeless and in request for help, after abandoning him and their son more than a decade ago.